Lea Aschkenas lives in Northern California where she works as a librarian at a public library and a poet-teacher with California Poets in the Schools. Her memoir, Es Cuba: Life and Love on an Illegal Island (Hachette), tells the story of a year she spent living in Cuba. Her children’s book, Arletis, Abuelo, and the Message in a Bottle (Star Bright Books), is based on a true message in a bottle story set in California and Cuba.
Additionally, her prose and poetry have been published in World Literature Today, Salon, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Atlanta Review, Bracken, and Poets Reading the News, among other publications.
